JKA: Gah, I'm so sorry for the late update, guys! I'd planned on having this one up last weekend, but my schedule got the better of me, and then I managed to catch whatever illness my dad brought home, so I wasn't feeling up to posting this. But it's here now! And I'll be putting up the next one right after to make up for my tardiness. :D Anyway, usual disclaimers apply. Read, review, and enjoy~
You Found Me - The Fray
Rage had become a regular emotion in Jak's day-to-day life. Bloodlust, sadness, pain, all were almost unsettlingly familiar to him. Every hour of the reality he called existing was consumed in darkness, in hatred so powerful that he scarcely thought of anything else.
In truth, he was almost lost in the world, isolated from those around him. None of them understood — could even begin to imagine the things he'd gone through. They knew of happiness and joy, and they took it for granted; two concepts that Jak had all-but-forgotten. Laughter, too, was as foreign to him as knowing when to simply stop talking was to Daxter.
Some small part of him believed that he'd once experienced such emotions for himself, but nowadays, he couldn't even remember when the last time he'd truly smiled had been. He felt trapped in his own anger, as if he were spiraling into an endless void of self-destruction with no hope of returning to the light.
Many times when he'd been locked in that damned prison cell, back in the fortress he'd been forced to call home for far too long, he'd prayed to the Precursors — to anyone — that things would turn out for the better. No one had ever answered his pleas, and eventually, he merely stopped having faith in anyone's abilities but his own.
Nothing seemed to matter anymore. Everything he'd ever loved, ever held dear, had been ripped away from him, and there was no way things could ever return to the way they'd once been.
But when that tattered curtain was pulled aside — fanning the smell of oil and engine grease in his face — to reveal a beaming Keira beyond the fabric, only one thought flashed through Jak's mind, banishing all his doubts and melting his anger like fog in the sunlight.
I'm home.